Smithsonian Institution (COR)
Summary: Uses text and computer-generated artworks to provide detailed, realistic explorations of a wide range of topics in six broad categories. Includes glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J031 DORSummary: "A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects from the Smithsonian collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.0495 SMISummary: "On this album of never-before-released work, mountain music virtuoso Hobart Smith (1897-1965) plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and piano in addition to singing, clog-dancing, and reminiscing. Taped shortly before he died by fellow banjo player Fleming Brown, Smith brings us back to a vanished era in these deeply personal recordings"--Publishers website.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SMIContents: Soldier's joy / Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (2:55) -- Jordan is a hard road to travel / Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers (3:06) -- Barbara Allen / Bradley Kincaid (3:20) -- The prisoner's song / Vernon Dalhart (3:03) -- Wildwood flower / Carter Family (3:08) -- Waiting for a train (2:43) ; Blue yodel no. 8 (2:59) / Jimmie Rodgers -- Ragged but right / Riley Puckett (2:54) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1990
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CLASummary: Host Tom Cavanagh takes viewers beyond the exhibit halls on an insider's tour of private rooms, high tech vaults, and cutting-edge labs of the Smithsonian, revealing some of the amazing artifacts and rarely-seen treasures that visitors can't see.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOContents: Disc 1. We shall overcome / The Freedom Singers (2:09) -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie (2:48) -- De colores (made of colors) / Baldemar Velásquez with Aguila Negra (3:02) -- Union maid / Bobbie McGee (2:13) -- If I had a hammer / Pete Seeger (1:54) -- Reclaim the night / Peggy Seeger (4:33) -- Estoy aquí (I am here) / Quetzal (5:21) -- Deportees (plane wreck at Los Gatos) / Sammy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SOCSummary: Follow marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin as she explores 3,000 feet beneath the ocean, near the Galapagos islands, to collect rare and unusual species for study.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.665 GALChalloner, Jack
Summary: "The book examines the science behind everyday life -- how we power our homes, grow our food, and build machines that allow us to communicate with others and travel around the world. Featuring a wide range of scientific inventions and discoveries, from advances in modern medicine to groundbreaking ideas for saving the environment, SuperScience uncovers how science plays a part in every area of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Crawshaw, Alwyn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.422 CRAHarris, Alexandra N.
Summary: "Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians' history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0089 HARWoodward, John
Summary: Text and illustrations look at different dinosaurs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Penguin Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 3. The boy next door / Judy Garland -- Something to remember you by / Dinah Shore -- Alone together / Jo Stafford -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye / Benny Goodman Quintet with Peggy Mann -- I only have eyes for you / Frank Sinatra -- A cottage for sale / Billy Eckstine -- You are too beautiful / Dick Haymes -- They say it's wonderful / Perry Como -- I'll get by / Buddy Clark -- Little Girl...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL AMESummary: Recommends plants that grow well in different sunny or shady locations, as well as those best suited for different styles of gardens and for each season and those noted for color, scent, shape, texture, or special conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "From simple to sophisticated, elegant to excessive, what we wear says who we are. "Fashion" is the ultimate visual guide to everything ever worn. From the extravagance of Ancient Egypt, through the legendary fashion houses of Chanel and Dior, to the latest cutting-edge labels, this gorgeous collection of costume and dress shows how fashion reflects people and places, and captures the times in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 391.009 FASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 391.009 FASSummary: "Take a detailed look at the fascinating history and culture of Washington DC with an insider's tour sponsored by Smithsonian."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This visual encyclopedia includes 3-D artworks, offering a view of every part of the body from the skull to the heart and lungs to the joints and muscles, taking kids from head to toe. Supporting STEM education initiatives, all the body systems and structures are made easy to understand. Both the anatomy -- how the body looks -- and the physiology -- how the body works -- are visualized and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 HUMSummary: "Survey more than 200 years of musical sounds and styles that are inextricably linked with the spirit and history of the United States of America"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 AMECall number: DVD 780.973 AME
Summary: Collects approximately one hundred articles that were published just prior to and in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, in a volume that offers insight into such topics as the responses of Roosevelt and Churchill and the practice of Japanese internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 DECContents: The Jack Benny program / w Mel Blanc (1953) -- The Burns & Allen show / w George Burns, Gracie Allen, Frank Sinatra (1946) -- The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show / w Edgar Bergen, Humphrey Bogart (1943).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN OLDSummary: Presents twelve radio episodes, digitally restored and remastered from recordings of comedy shows originally broadcast between 1942 and 1952, when radio was at its peak.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Reproductions from their first comic-book printings for such characters as Superman, Batman, Scribbly, Plastic Man, Captain Marvel, Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Pogo, and The Spirit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1981